Now, unlike the D3football.com Top 25, everyone in Division III can and will be in the Top 234. That’s the exclusive top-to-bottom ranking of every team D3football.com tracks, from . . . let’s just guess No. 1 will be Mount Union . . . down to the worst team. The ranking is available only to Kickoff subscribers.
Keith McMillan and I started working on this ranking last night. Last year it probably took us about eight hours of deliberations to rank the 231 teams. This time we spent about two hours on it and got the bottom 55 teams ranked, and believe me, the bottom teams are easier to rank than the teams in the middle. We’ll tackle the rest in the coming days.
Even the brand-new teams get into this ranking. We spent a fair amount of time debating the various merits of LaGrange, Morrisville State and SUNY-Maritime. And when teams aren’t connected by head-to-head action or common opponents, it’s certainly a matter of projection. Would Heidelberg beat Juniata? Great question.
Those are the kind of questions we need to answer.
Just for S & G’s I went back to the 2005 preseason poll and 1 person actually called it right!
Just for S & G’s I went back to the 2005 preseason poll and 1 person actually called it right! I would say they had a first place vote that was right.
I too went back to the 2003 & 2004 preseason poll and nobody called it right then either!
excuse me…three people had it right in ’04
I was going to say … I was one of those three. 🙂
Yes,
that was heavily publicized at the time, was it not? 🙂
Ranking the middle teams is brutal. 6-4 vs. bad competition, 3-7 with three overtime losses and 5-5 but with two games that had no business being on their schedule … who’s really better?
We’re up to 140 through last night, so about 100 down, more than half to go.
Ah, the glamourous life of a D3 geek.
lol… this is about the funniest thing I’ve ever seen… I can’t believe you guys are doing this!!!
And you were trying to convince me that I was almost as weird as you Pat 😛
Well I know this is off topic….
Catdomealumni.com just put out our latest clip “BIG HITS Part I” Some great highlight hits for you to enjoy.
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Make sure to put the CCIW and WIAC teams near the top.
All of them? But what fun would that be?
D3Keith, I see your dilemma. Thiel is ranked 25th and I have no idea who they have returning. Carnegie Mellon hasn’t had a losing season in 31 years and I would be interested to hear what you think of them since they battle Thiel in a triple-overtime loss 50-48. It was one whale of a game I tell you this. So I understand your comment earlier about middle of the road teams. Last year Thiel was 11-1 I believe and Carnegie was 5-5.